Sunday, May 30, 2010
The big rewind
Efficiency and models of virtual economies. Gold Farming and implications of investment-free outsourcing. Property testing and Szemerédi regularity lemma.
Voidbase queue persistence via Apache Avro. Streams not closing, cursor advance errors. Abuse EOFException to create Iterator. Handbook of Computational Econometrics on the bench. Elements revisited. Euclid's ideas as edifice of modern thought.
EDSAC and glory days of Econometrics at Cambridge. The dawn of Mark I era. Stressing the Klein-Goldberg model.